From Monday's Washington Post:
"In the present climate especially, the funding decisions are ultraconservative," Nobel Prize winner Roger Kornberg said in an interview conducted by the Post's Christopher Lee, describing the situation at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "If the work that you propose to do isn't virtually certain of success, then it won't be funded. And of course, the kind of work that we would most like to see take place, which is groundbreaking and innovative, lies at the other extreme." Kornberg is convinced that his groundbreaking research would not have been funded by today's NIH. He blames the problem not on NIH itself, but on inadequate funding for the agency.
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